I finally managed to pull my finger out – well, move my iMac into the lounge temporarily – and have started some iPhone/iPod development. It’s actually not bad so far, I haven’t really used XCode or written Objective-C before and they are both taking a bit of getting used to. But overall, ok so far.

My first little app is a utility for myself really – when good enough it will go up on the App Store. It’s a little app that really just does some adding up – it does snooker scoring. “That’s not much of a utility!” I hear you say… well mutter. I know it might not seem like it, but if you actually keep track of the score yourself, you can always know how close someone is to winning, what their maximum break could be, and some other nice little things. I was watching the Masters tournament on TV with a little table of “number of reds left –> score remaining” and then doing some maths to work out how the game was going. It was surprisingly useful, hence doing the more involved utility.

Also, I recently found out they have don’t show you the on-screen graphics when at a live snooker tournament – you can see the scores but don’t know things like maximum break / points remaining unless good at maths or very used to the ‘snooker maffs’. So this little util could be handy. For some! I’m not saying it’s for everyone…

It’s a good first little project, anyway